The Showdown Effect is a 2.5D multiplayer action game developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Paradox Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Inspired by 80’s and 90’s action movies, where champions from different eras of time fight to the death, for fun, for glory, and for awesome, the goal of the development team was to "recreate the outrageous combat found in classic action movies".

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The Showdown Effect is a 2.5D multiplayer action game where players battle for the upper hand through cunning use of different weapons, the game's wide range dynamic environments and even the engine's own dramatic audiovisual effects.

The Showdown Effect allows you to customise your character's loadout. Below you will find a list of weapons you can equip in the game. You start off with access to Machine Guns, Swords, and Kung Fu and can then purchase additional weapons to unlock them.